Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-06-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
A S275,OOO FIrc-Reuuion OF tho Blue
and Grsy-FoIsoned-The DriIl = Sue
cess-A Cave In.

A S275,OOO FIre-Reuuion OF the Blue
and Grsy-PoIsoned-The Drill y sue
cess-A Cave In.
A large eight.story brick storage
ehouse, situated in the block bound
ed by King, Charlton, West and Wash.
ington streets, New York, was destroy.
ed by fire last night with Its con tents
general merchandise. The FIRE was
started at 6 O'Clock BY the explosion Of
. lamp carried by q workman on the
ground floor. The total loss is estima
ted at $275, 900, including $50, 0,0cO on
The building, which WAS leased by John
8. Richard. The goods stored In the
warehouse belonged to 25 or 30 different
owners.
A grand inter State reunion of Union
and Confederate soldiers is to be held
1t Evansville. Indiana, In September
next, under the auspices Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic. The reunion
will take place week before the meet
ing of the National Encampment of the
Grand Army.
At Quebec, on Monday, three men,
named Pilon, Jeanette and Madouin,
were taken sick while at work, and,
medical aid being procured, It was
learned that they had BEEN poisoned.
Jeannette and Madouin have since
died, AMI Pilon Is still very sick. How
the meh came to be poisoned 10 o mys
terry.
Colonel Black, president OF the Board
Of Army Officers, who served as judge
rf tho NotinunI ATstita~- nrllI IN Wouh
ington, eaid Tuesday that the drill wal
complete success from military poin'
Of view, and that those who managed Il
and those who participated in 1t vert
entitled to great credit.
There was o cave. in, caused by melt
Ing snow, nJ the Mullen tunnel Of thu
Northern Pacific railroad, near Butte
Montana, on Saturday last. which may
stop the transfer of heavy freight fo
some time. The break is about IS fee
In depth and 100 in length.
The chief mate and ono OF the sailor
| OF the Italisn bark Oarrara, which az
rived at Philadelphia on Tuesday, die'
| OF yellow fever on the 18th ultlmo, AM
were buried ct sea. The vessel wa
towed back to quarantine and notifica
tion of the matter WAS sent to the Boar
OF Health.
| In Detroit, ON Monday night, Wm
B. Dolsn interfered with Policsn,a
John Klebs, who was trying 70 qusll
disturbance, and was shot dead b.
Klebs. Mrs. Connor, grandmother c
Dolan, died during the night from tn
effects of the shock.
The New York Board Of Alderme
yesterday appointed Miss Minna r
Pollock, . translator and law type
writer, as Commissioner OF Deeds. He
name was substituted for that of ez
Assemblyman Roche, by q vote Of 2
to1.
A mail train and freight train COLI
ded at Shamokin, Pa, Tuesday night
and both were badly wrecked. severa
persons were injured, among them J.J
Timmons, travelling passenger agent
and Il. d. Strausser, mail agent.
By q runaway accident in Kanss
City, Missouri, on Monday evening
Mrs. Eleanor Randall was killed, an
Mrs. Charles French and her daughter
Emily, were fatally Injured. MI. Frenc
was stunned.
| Professor Charles Sledhori and b
WIG mAtliuA, aEeu febpsCtiVely VI AZ
90 years, after long and hopeles
struggle with destitution, committe
suicide Tuesday, OF Union Hill, Ne
Jersey.
President Cleveland and Colonel L.
mont spent six hours trout fishing O
Saranao Lake on Tuesday, and caugt
about 200 trout Of various sizes, th
largest weighing half pound.
Samuel Prinkey fatally stabbed h!
wife with q penknife near Connellsvillt
Pa, ON Monday night. They had bee
separated for several weeks.
| An unknown man was struck by
| Grain on the New York Division of tn
Pennsylvania Railroad on Tuesda
xfternoon and died in o short time.
Policeman Thomas Tyrrell shot az
killed James Carroll, ia pugnaoiou
prisoner" at Waukegon, Illinois, o
Tuesday.
The City Council of Evansville, Ind
ana, on Monday night, raieed the pric
of liquor licenses from f25 to S75 PIT
year.